1558 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
- Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England
- Joachim du Bellay, France:
- * Des Antiquités de Rome
- * Les Regrets, melancholy satire, a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"
- * Divers Jeux Rustiques
- * Poésies latines
- Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe
- Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
- * Lyric Poems
- * Galateo
- Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian
Births
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- October 24 - Szymon Szymonowic born, Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
- Also:
- * Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560,, English poet
- * Robert Greene, English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
- * Thomas Kyd, English dramatist and poet
- * Thomas Lodge, English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
- * Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet
- * William Warner, English poet
- * Dinko Zlatarić, Croatian poet and translator
Deaths
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